A cornerstone of our Fedora Summer Coding is connecting sponsors (those with resources to share) with students (those with time, passion, and skills to share.) It’s not necessary as a sponsor to have ideas of how your resources should be used, that’s what the Fedora Project and JBoss.org mentors and sub-projects are prepared to do.

We’ll also sort the student ideas, generate the list of approved proposals, work with the students throughout the summer, and make sure you hear back about how things went. You can learn more about the model we are using in this blog post, Summer Of Code Swimchart: Now With More Generic.

We need to start talking, soon. I know it’s pretty late in your budget cycles and academic planning year. But you would be surprised what a pool from a number of us can do. It’s worth talking about, at the very least.

What are the resources you can supply?

Money to pay stipends to students for spending focused time on these FOSS projects. This is a cross between a summer job and an internship.